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appointed by President Obama to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and to the President's Committee on the Arts View Details

17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

Finance in Commercial Real Estate John D. Macomber and Frederik NellemannHarvard Business School Case 212-067 A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2000
News

by Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) to further research in the field of information technology. Others receiving chairs for the first time are Max Bazerman (Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration); View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

underscored the importance of employee engagement, contributing to the community, and creating sustainable environment strategies. Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela In this video report, Senior Lecturer View Details

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

Shaky Ground Senior Lecturer John Macomber Because of a housing shortage in Williston, oil worker Glenn Robinson, from Missouri, sleeps in his car, staying warm by idling the... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

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Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Pepi Pandiloski, Yeji Park, Aneesh Rai, Max Bazerman, John Beshears, Lauri Bonacorsi, Colin Camerer, Edward Chang, Gretchen Chapman, Robert Cialdini, Hengchen Dai, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach, James J. Gross, Samantha Horn, Alexa Hubbard, Steven J. Jones, Dean Karlan, Tim Kautz, Erika Kirgios, Joowon Klusowski, Ariella Kristal, Rahul Ladhania, Jens Ludwig, George Loewenstein, Barbara Mellers, Sendhil Mullainathan, Silvia Saccardo, Jann Spiess, Gaurav Suri, Joachim H. Talloen, Jamie Taxer, Yaacov Trope, Lyle Ungar, Kevin G. Volpp, Ashley V. Whillans, Jonathan Zinman and Angela L. Duckworth

Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens’ decisions and outcomes. Typically, different scientists test different intervention ideas in different samples using different outcomes over different time... View Details

Keywords: Policy Making; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Decision Making; Policy

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16 Dec 2020
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Faculty Books Published in 2020

organization. Read the full abstract. Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity by John D. Macomber View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution Authors:Fabrice Lumineau and Deepak Malhotra Publication:Strategic Management Journal (in press) Abstract This paper investigates how contract structure... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2024
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Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

African people, businesses, cities, and nations are increasingly stressed by climate related perils like drought, river flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise. This is... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

strategy and risk-analysis along the way. How Investors Think about Climate Adaptation Senior Lecturer John Macomber (MBA 1983) 10:00–11:15 a.m. EDT + More Info – Less Info... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap

Professor Allen Grossman and Senior Lecturer John Kim with HGSE professor Susan Moore Johnson Searching for System-Wide Solutions Baltimore City College's stellar education... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out

Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity Senior Lecturer John View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

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A Megastudy of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated at an Upcoming Doctor's Appointment

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Mitesh S. Patel, Linnea Gandhi, Heather N. Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Modupe Akinola, John Beshears, Jonathan E. Bogard, Alison Buttenheim, Christopher F. Chabris, Gretchen B. Chapman, James J. Choi, Hengchen Dai, Craig R. Fox, Amir Goren, Matthew D. Hilchey, Jillian Hmurovic, Leslie K. John, Dean Karlan, Melanie Kim, David Laibson, Cait Lamberton, Brigitte C. Madrian, Michelle N. Meyer, Maria Modanu, Jimin Nam, Todd Rogers, Renante Rondina, Silvia Saccardo, Maheen Shermohammed, Dilip Soman, Jehan Sparks, Caleb Warren, Megan Weber, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Christopher K. Snider, Eli Tsukayama, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth

Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes the challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We present a large field experiment (N = 47,306) testing 19 nudges delivered to patients via... View Details

Keywords: Vaccination; COVID-19; Nudge; Influenza; Field Experiment; Health; Communication Strategy; Behavior

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04 Feb 2019
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Presenting…an Alternative to Company Presentations: Evercore Grabs Attention with Interactive Events

regulatory dynamics.” The deal was announced in May 2018 and is expected to close in the first half of 2019 with a transaction value of roughly $79 billion. Walker and Joseph... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

Healthy Buildings John Macomber and the Harvard Chan School’s Joe Allen published a new book, Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

losing their humanity. All Business Is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World by John A. Quelch (DBA 1977) and Katherine E. Jocz (Portfolio/Penguin)... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

variety of philanthropists, including the foundation started by the late John Walton—to establish a funding operation in Tennessee. The Fund supports CMOs whose schools have performed well on a broad range... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools

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Beau D'Arcy

pleasure of taking courses with some of the best: Rakesh Khurana, Clayton Christensen, and John Macomber just to name a few. But the one that had the greatest impact on me... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entertainment / Media

01 Dec 2016
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Takeaways

leads to action that produces needed results.” —Professor emeritus John Kotter (DBA 1972), That’s Not How We Do It Here!, a book written in fable form “It is now possible to build a new sort of firm that promotes open communication across... View Details

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Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment

equivalent of 60% of its electricity from local, renewable sources.” Ruthanne Fuller HBS MBA 1983 Mayor, City of Newton John Macomber HBS MBA 1983 Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School “If storms worsen,... View Details

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